Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 13, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead editorial welcoming summer and the close of the bicycle-dinner season, urging members to "Ride in America" and noting the L. A. W.'s 35th anniversary on May 31st, followed by the usual scrap-book squibs (including Terry Andrae of Milwaukee on the late Arthur Sidwell and the launch of R. F. Kelsey's Bicycle News).
- Recalls George M. Hendee's early racing career, from his July 4, 1882 win at Springfield to his astonishing victory over Lewis T. Frye of Marlboro and Victor C. Place in the L. A. W. mile championship at Boston on Oct. 20, 1882 (time 2:57 1/2), with Abbot Bassett presenting the Bicycling World cups.
- Account of the Rovers Cycle Club's 29th annual dinner at the Boston Athletic Club on May 15, with entertainment by Harvard men Fayette Roope and Murray Hall, a verse skit by Abbot Bassett, and the re-election of President Thomas H. Hall ahead of the club's 30th anniversary.
- Reports the V. W. A. dinner of May 16 at the Colonnade Hotel, listing newly elected officers (President C. A. Dimon, etc.) and speeches by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Tri-State League president George M. Graham, and Senate chaplain Dr. Thomas W. Davis.
- Obituary of George Arthur Perkins, former L. A. W. vice-president and Massachusetts good-roads champion, who died of tuberculosis at Mattapan Hospital on April 29; recounts his legal career, his introduction of the first state highway bill, and his chairmanship of the State Highway Commission under Governor Russell.
- Notes a proposal by Frederick J. Keer that the Essex Bicycle Club (the country's second-oldest, organized March 8, 1879) ride bicycles in Newark's 250th anniversary parade in 1916, possibly inviting the Boston Bicycle Club to join, with officers including President William S. Righter re-elected.
- Describes the Milwaukee Wheelmen's 31st anniversary dinner on April 17 with 36 present, toastmaster W. L. Simonds and speeches by Otto Dorner and Martin C. Rotier, and Terry Andrae's exhibition ride on a 58-inch British Challenge ordinary bought from W. B. Everett & Co. of Boston 30 years earlier.
- A letter from L. A. W. member G. R. Comings enrolling his 16-year-old daughter, who earned her membership by riding 1,223 miles in a year, recounting their tour through the Berkshires by boat up the Hudson to Stockport, Williamstown, Pittsfield, Lenox, Stockbridge and home along the Sound.
- The nominating committee under chairman Charles C. Ryder submits its slate for the September annual meeting: William H. Hale of New York for President, George D. Gideon of Philadelphia for First Vice-President, Theodore Merseles of Jersey City for Second Vice-President, and Augustus Nickerson of Boston for Auditor.